Frank Ormsby - Goat's Milk : New and Selected Poems in PDF, TXT, FB2
9781930630741 English 1930630743 Comprehensive retrospective of the work of a central figure in Northern Ireland for the past 40 years. Introduction by Michael Longley., Frank Ormsby s keen eye is trained on numerous subjects: the unheralded country people in Northern Ireland, American soldiers stationed there during World War II, and the rich natural world of Westchester County north of Manhattan. However, these sympathetic poems are not untroubled observations. As Michael Longley notes in his introduction: From early on something desolate and unsettling shades this poet s vision, counteracting his warmer compulsions. The Troubles of Northern Irish history hover in the margins of many poems, but are not central to the stories the poems have to tellhow life continues in its daily forms no matter what type of fate descends. There are poems of death and birth, love and heartbreak, but the voice behind the poems unites them in the simplicity of his telling. Ormsby s words are seldom flashy, but glow steadily with both transparency and assuredness."
9781930630741 English 1930630743 Comprehensive retrospective of the work of a central figure in Northern Ireland for the past 40 years. Introduction by Michael Longley., Frank Ormsby s keen eye is trained on numerous subjects: the unheralded country people in Northern Ireland, American soldiers stationed there during World War II, and the rich natural world of Westchester County north of Manhattan. However, these sympathetic poems are not untroubled observations. As Michael Longley notes in his introduction: From early on something desolate and unsettling shades this poet s vision, counteracting his warmer compulsions. The Troubles of Northern Irish history hover in the margins of many poems, but are not central to the stories the poems have to tellhow life continues in its daily forms no matter what type of fate descends. There are poems of death and birth, love and heartbreak, but the voice behind the poems unites them in the simplicity of his telling. Ormsby s words are seldom flashy, but glow steadily with both transparency and assuredness."